We’re excited to introduce a new Alexa Skills training course called How to Build a Multimodal Alexa Skill. This self-paced course is free and available to anyone ready to build skills using Alexa Presentation Language (APL).

In this roundup video we share details about the new things released for skill developers last month, including Skill Personalization, Utterance Conflict Detection, the Get Metrics API, and many other releases from October!

This tutorial guides you through the creation and configuration of an Amazon Cognito User Pool and provides sample skill code which will be configured to make use of the Cognito User Pool as an OAuth authorization and service end-point.

Are you looking for ways to improve the customer experience for your custom skills? One update that can have a big impact is to create a personalized customer experience. This post will walk you through the personalization options available to you in the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK).

We sat down with Developer AppyNation to hear more about how they maintain app version parity to assure same features are available on different app stores. What tools does Amazon Appstore offer to help facilitate this process, and what role does customer trust play? Read on to learn more.